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Employers are encouraged to attend seminars on how to avoid email scams and identity fraud.

Letters containing thousands of pounds destined for Canada as part of a mailing scam are found.

The Canadian who got a surprise in his phone bill - to the tune of £80,000 - was not the first. With the advent of mobile phones, premium rate lines and the internet, some nasty shocks can lurk in that white envelope when it drops on the doormat.

Police say an e-mail warning of a carjacking scam in the west of Scotland is bogus.

Some see them as a joke, a few even take them at their word, but to most of us spam e-mails that promise to "enlarge your manhood" have become an everyday pest. Simon Cox, of Radio 4's the Investigation, set out to discover who is behind them.